RootData Free Push Service: Submit exclusive financing info and upon approval, enjoy free App push notifications. [Contact Now]
API Download the RootData App

Larry Cermak

President at The Block

Details

Larry Cermak is President of The Block and previously served as CEO, Director of Research, and was responsible for a 30-person research team that provided insights to institutional clients. Prior to that, he worked as an analyst at Diar, and his other experience includes Ernst & Young, Google, Microsoft, and Vodafone.

Work Experience

Investments

Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Fogo Fogo
Community $ 100 M $ 8 M
Jan 24
Infinex Infinex
-- -- $ 65.3 M
Sep 25, 2024
Agent Exchange Agent Exchange
-- -- $ 1 M
Jul 29, 2024
ZAP ZAP
-- -- $ 15 M
Jul 12, 2024
Blast Blast
-- -- $ 20 M
Nov 21, 2023
Contango Contango
Seed $ 45 M $ 4 M
Jul 14, 2022
Flip Flip
Seed -- $ 6.5 M
Jan 11, 2022
Timeswap Timeswap
Seed -- --
Oct 22, 2021
Kresko Kresko
Seed -- $ 2.35 M
Oct 06, 2021
ClayStack ClayStack
Seed -- $ 5.2 M
Jul 13, 2021
Everclear Everclear
Series A -- $ 12 M
Jul 13, 2021
Holograph Holograph
Pre-Seed -- $ 1.7 M
Jul 13, 2021
Impossible Finance Impossible Finance
Strategic $ 60 M $ 7 M
Jun 04, 2021

Investment Overview

Rounds in the past year

3

Total rounds

13

Portfolio Numbers

13

Lead Investment

0

The Archives Including

Related News

Related Figures

Hiroki Kotabe

Hiroki Kotabe is Head of research at Leniscap and was previously Principal at Inception Capital, Head of Growth at Qredo, and a researcher at The Block. He is a graduate of Columbia University and the University of Chicago.

Forest Bai

Forest Bai is the co-founder of Foresight Ventures, former chairman of the board of directors of The Block and investment manager of Huarong Securities, and graduated from Tsinghua University.

Michael Tanguma

Michael Tanguma is co-founder and CEO of Onramp and a former partner at Ten31. Previously, he also worked at The Block, GoLinks, WeWork, and Google.

Kaleb Jessee

Kaleb Jessee is the CEO of The Block. He has a Masters in Public Administration from Western Kentucky University.

Steven Zheng

Steven Zheng is The Director of Research at The Block and previously worked on blockchain and cryptocurrencies at Radicle, a startup analytics firm. He graduated from St. John's University of Technology.

Mike Dudas

Founder and General Partner of 6th Man Ventures, Co-Founder and Chairman of LinksDAO, Advisor and Business Development at Paxos, and Founder of The Block.

Eden Au

Eden Au is Research Director at TheBlock. He specialises in blockchain technology, DeFi, machine learning, and control theory. I usually code in Python and Solidity. He obtained a Master's degree in Engineering in Information Engineering from the University of Oxford.

Lars H.

Lars H. is Senior Director of Research at The Block and previously worked at Credit Suisse. He graduated from Tsinghua University and ESB Business School, Reutlingen University.

Igor Igamberdiev

Igor Igamberdiev is Head of Research at Wintermute, formerly at Paradigm and Director of Research at The Block.

Tim Copeland

Tim Copeland is the editor-in-chief of The Block and previously served as deputy editor-in-chief of Decrypt. He is a trained journalist focused on the crypto industry. He's interviewed Vitalik Buterin, Changpeng Zhao, Roger Ver, Justin Sun, John McAfee, Craig Wright and other high-profile figures in the space.